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Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce with Pasta - Healthy | Easy | Tasty

Nov 26, 2020 · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

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This Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce is an easy, creamy, and delicious basil pesto recipe. The sauce is made with ingredients such as spinach, avocado (for ultimate creaminess), walnuts, nutritional yeast and parmesan cheese.

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Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce

Firstly, this Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce is the easiest pasta sauce you will ever make! You don't even have to cook the sauce. Place the ingredients into a food processor, blend and the sauce is done! Secondly, this is the perfect pesto sauce to pair with your favorite pasta. Also, you can use the pesto as a dressing on a salad, sauce on pizza or pair with a protein such as chicken, tofu, shrimp or salmon. Lastly, I know the traditional way to make pesto is with pine nuts. This pesto sauce is made without pine nuts. I used walnuts instead. You can honestly use whatever nuts you have on hand. I've made pesto with pistachios before which is also very delicious. Check out that recipe HERE.

  • Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce
  • Basil Pesto Sauce in Food Processor
  • Basil Pesto Sauce in Food Processor with Spoon
  • Fork full of pesto pasta

How to make a creamy pesto sauce?

This pesto sauce is super creamy thanks to the avocado. It creates a thick and creamy sauce that gets inside all the nooks and crannies of rotini pasta. I mean, check out that picture above!

How can I make this basil pesto dairy free?

Simply double up on the nutritional yeast and omit the parmesan cheese and you have a dairy free pesto sauce!

Fork full of pesto pasta

Ingredients Used in This Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce:

  • baby spinach
  • fresh basil leaves
  • olive oil
  • water 
  • lemon 
  • avocado
  • walnuts 
  • parmesan cheese
  • nutritional yeast
  • garlic
  • salt
  • black pepper

Check out my KitchenAid 3.5-Cup Food Chopper HERE! It's perfect for making this pesto!

Basil Pesto Sauce in Food Processor with Spoon

What to eat pesto with:

  • PASTA - I highly recommend Blue Evolution Seaweed Pasta. You can purchase it HERE.
  • Air Fryer Shrimp
  • Easy Broiled Salmon - Omit the sauce and cook with this pesto instead!
  • Air Fried Tofu
  • Air Fried Chicken
Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce

Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce with Pasta

This Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce is a healthy, easy, creamy, and delicious basil pesto recipe. It also can be made to be dairy free!
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Course Main Course
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups dry pasta of choice - (I highly recommend Blue Evolution Seaweed Pasta. You can purchase it HERE.)
  • 3 cups baby spinach
  • 1 cup fresh basil leaves
  • ⅛ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ cup mashed avocado - (about ½ avocado)
  • ⅛ cup chopped walnuts
  • ⅛ cup parmesan cheese
  • ⅛ cup nutritional yeast
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp black pepper

Instructions
 

  • To make the pesto sauce, blend all of the ingredients above in a food processor except for the pasta until creamy.
    Basil Pesto Sauce in Food Processor with Spoon
  • Cook pasta according to the box's instructions. Combine the pasta with the sauce. Optional: Add a few sun dried tomatoes on top!
    Spinach Avocado Pesto Sauce

This nutrition information is an estimate and should not be taken as fact. The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.

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  1. Diane

    January 08, 2021 at 1:25 pm

    5 stars
    This pasta was so delicious! The avocado made the sauce very smooth and creamy! It was a big hit with the family!

    Reply
    • krista

      January 09, 2021 at 9:06 am

      A success! Thank you for your kind comment and rating, Diane! – Krista <3

      Reply
  2. Erika

    March 10, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    5 stars
    So so good! Didn’t have the basil or Parmesan cheese but still tasted amazing!

    Reply
    • krista

      March 11, 2021 at 8:03 am

      YAY! SO happy to hear that, Erika. 🙂 - Krista <3

      Reply

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